Word: conformal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small towns] you simply must conform ... or live like a hermit and disappoint your husband and his people...
...surprised and offended." It added: "The Soviet Nation is a realistic country, so in all probability her foreign policy vis-à-vis her neighbor is not wholly immutable. . . . Consequently, it is the firm belief of the Japanese general public that Japan must also adopt a realistic policy that will conform with any new situation created by the Russians." What Japan feared was that Russia would sooner or later make...
Princeton University will return to its 1942-43 calendar when the termination of the V-12 unit no longer makes it necessary to conform to the Navy schedule, Robert K. Root, dean of the faculty, announced yesterday. This is the first concrete stop taken by any one of the Big Three toward de-acceleration and reconversion to a peacetime program...
...Italians come to work at 8 or 9 in the morning, knock off at 1 for a three-hour lunch and siesta, resume work around 4 or 4:30. Government offices usually stay open until 7 or 8, despite anguished British-U.S. efforts to make the Italians conform to British-U.S. hours...
...Americans like to think of themselves as horselaughing individualists. In fact, says Brogan. ever since pioneer days the American wife, mother and schoolteacher have done a pretty successful job of making the menfolk conform. Town-proud Americans have felt that free-for-all "crab bing" is no way to build up a continent, have had short patience with individual ists and dissenters...